Merging all things business with the latest in technology. This is The Purple Tie Show. The Purple Tie is a marketing and web development company located in Decatur, Alabama. We specialize in small to medium size businesses in need of a website and/or online marketing. This podcast is a weekly show that features Robert Martin and Blake Singleton discussing marketing, technology, and all manner of side tangents.

Last week we recorded about 15 minutes of terrible
podcast and decided that we just weren’t up to the task. Rather
than releasing something that was subpar, we took a week off,
regrouped, and now we’ve got some excellent content for you!

We’ll be going back to Dragon next week probably.
It’s a great program, but it has a lot left to be desired when it
comes to transcription.

There are rumors swirling about Apple possibly
killing off the iPad mini. I’m not sure where I found that article,
but I completely believe it. In a world where you can get a 6”
phone, there’s so little need for a 7 or 8 inch tablet that doesn’t
let you make phone calls. It would be a smart move on Apple’s part
if for no other reason than to funnel the money previously
allocated to the mini into something else like the iPhone or one of
their various failing computer lines (I’m looking at you MacBook
Pro and Mac Pro).

We briefly talked about being a great artist but
still needing a sales team. That’s why creatives hire agents. So
they don’t have to sell their own products. They just pay someone
else to do that for them.

Tesla announced their solar roof shingle replacements
a while back, and I’ve been salivating for them ever sense. I love
the idea of putting solar panels on my roof, but when I check on
pricing years ago it was astronomical (hundreds of thousands of
dollars). Finding out that these shingle replacements are more
durable and cheaper than traditional roof materials was so
exciting, I started saving money for a new roof IMMEDIATELY. And
now they have the ability to PRINT solar conductive material and put it
literally anywhere. As Robert points out in the podcast, you can
take a huge roll of it into the desert, unroll it and suddenly have
power! It’s such an amazing time for alternative fuels. In 20 or 30
years, maybe a huge percentage of roofs in the U.S. will be solar.
Maybe we’ll actually begin reversing some of the effects of
pollution due to fossil fuel emissions. Or maybe nothing will
change at all. We’ll just have to wait and see. I, for one, will
have a solar powered roof!